The Cycle Show - ITV4

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Last nights show was definitely an improvement.

A coincidence?

(You came out of it much better than I did - at one point I appear to be staring at the camera and pointing, before I realise what is going on. Not cool.)

haha! What do they expect from us?!

I picked up a chair, put it down again. Then a minute later the sound/shot is edited abruptly, because my silly bike alarm went off and ruined the interview.

I also shake shinkuus hand.. I pull the fake smile off so well.

^wac

I knew I should have pulled a big skid right up to the entrance tho...

A coincidence?

(You came out of it much better than I did - at one point I appear to be staring at the camera and pointing, before I realise what is going on. Not cool.)

Brilliant! (Obvs not so much for you.)

Did anyone else thing that the folding bike segment imparted almost no information other than the names of the bikes involved. e.g. 'yeah this is... very stable'

For my money, they need to go in depth. Maybe only 2 segments a show, start easy with the basic info and then add depth for the people interested. Having a 30 second review per bike seems a bit cursory. Half a program on polo and then half on interviewing Olympians would have a good balance between giving Polo the exposure and depth it deserves and then some really interesting talk with the pros would give us good gossip.

Although half a program sounds like a whole bunch, 30 mins minus adverts, introductions, catching up with the vuelta or any other major cycling news and you'll probably get maybe 7-10 minutes a piece? That seems reasonable.

it's not like they are proper bikes

I fucking hate this show.

Obree has had an amazing life story, so why are they asking such banal questions?
Eddy Merckx could have an hour long programme about him as he is a legend, but again, another shit interview.
Gary Fisher could have a programme to himself as he too is a legend.

I was watching something about cyclingbuddy.com so why have two geezers in 80's styled cycling tops talking about finding a "buddy" to go cycling with?
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Do they have to be wearing cycling jerseys so we can see they are cyclists?*

The sound is bloody terrible! It's obvious where they have cut/chopped the piece together. Rob Hayles has the personality of a plank. It seems they have got the next trendy fecker in off the street who have once ridden a bike (Hayles excluded) to host the show. Please don't get Hayles and Cav in the same room as neither are media trained. It would be like a plank and a grinning monkey giving their opinions on cycling.

It would destroy cycling in a heartbeat

Can we have a show about cycling instead of a "Let's please everyone" type of show?

Jeff Bank's was good, but can't we see something about the training that the gals did for the Olympics instead of the same ol' interview we've all heard a trillion times before?

TV is about seeing moving pictures, not bods on a couch with inaudible sound FFS!!!!

Put it in a studio or at least keep the audience of "the great unwashed" under control and most of all FILM SOMETHING INTERESTING!!!!

Fuck Wayne (I'm a trendy fecker and I know fuck all about bikes, but Hey! Let's get me face on the box, eh?) Hemingway off for a start.

Who is the black girl with the shit hot tattoo on her shoulder and grandma's nicked gligs whom does the interviews?

What has she got to do with cycling?

What was that Box Hill Bollocks all about? Has anyone on the programme been up Box Hill? It's a fucking billiard table!!! I'm sick of hearing about it. It's not a Galibier or a Tourmalet and there are harder climbs in the area. SFW if the Olympics went up it nine times, it's always jammed full of dicks in cars when I go up it on my bike at weekends.

In fact I fucking hate Box Hill as it's full of sportive riders offa cyclingbuddy.com!!!

Sally's bike fitting = shit TV.

Kemp brother is an 80's pop star with thinning hair whom now rides a bike = SFW.

I too am an ageing 80's pop star who was in a shite band who played a few pubs and I have ridden a bike all my life, but I don't appear on every feckin' bike segment on TV spouting my new found love for the sport FFS!!!

Alan Davis = NOT FUNNY and knows FUCK ALL about cycling, so why have him on the show?

I'm going to crush my nuts in a vice whilst on the turbo when this weeks show is on as it's less painful to endure.

Note to the producers: Cycling is on a BOOM at the the moment in this country and I realise you have a limited budget, but if you want someone to make a proper programme that CYCLISTS will watch then please give me a shout and I will do it for you.

You are making UTTERLY FUCKING SHITE TELEVISION THAT IS PAPER FUCKING THIN AND WILL KILL CYCLING IN THIS COUNTY.

Have a nice day. More coffee please?

Has this been resolved yet?

^^ Not sure you got your point across...

Seriously though, it's come on a long way. I enjoyed this weeks show and I thought the interviews were more flowing. The show still needs a lot of work, but as others have said, it's better than no bike show at all...

^^ Not sure you got your point across...

Seriously though, it's come on a long way. I enjoyed this weeks show and I thought the interviews were more flowing. The show still needs a lot of work, but as others have said, it's better than no bike show at all...

My point is: IT'S NOT SAYING ANYTHING!!!

Building a fold-up bike and racing a Penny Farthing around Herne Hill amounts to SHIT TV and the interviews were "flowing" as Lizzie has a brain on her shoulders and the geezer doing the interviews has forgotten the question after he has asked it!

It's trying to please everyone and it fails.

Jolly good. I shall go on watching and enjoying it and seeing it improve.

^^Well it certainly doesn't please you, what with the caps lock and everything.
Here's something for you
http://milkshake.channel5.com/all-day-milkshake-programmes/peppa-pig/episodes/the-cycle-ride-2

Oh, and

Who is the black girl with the shit hot tattoo on her shoulder and grandma's nicked gligs whom does the interviews?

What has she got to do with cycling?

http://velo-city-girl.blogspot.co.uk/

Peppa Pig was good to watch, thanks x

Velo City Girl is all about promoting herself, not cycling.

Nearly everyone I've spoken to says it's too London based and 99% of Londoners don't know about cycling in general.

There words, not mine.

Have you thought of producing a show for provincial cycling hipsters? Could be just what you need.

Has cycling in this country died yet?

I think we should be told

I like Clive

Peppa Pig was good to watch, thanks x

Velo City Girl is all about promoting herself, not cycling.

Nearly everyone I've spoken to says it's too London based and 99% of Londoners don't know about cycling in general.

There words, not mine.

They're.

Fucking province dwellers.

'Their'

Fackin' Lahndan cahnts.

Have you thought of producing a show for provincial cycling hipsters? Could be just what you need.

In, what is a hipster again?

They are words though.

I actually thought (s)he was being thrifty, and ignoring copular verbs and personal pronouns.

"There [are] words [somewhere], [they are] not mine."

"They do though, don't they though?"

Daydoodoughdoanteedough

Doo bee doobee doo....